My Boyfriend’s Ex-Girlfriend Gives Me A Haircut

Robin Myers is a young poet and translator from New York, currently living in Mexico City. For her, writing a poem is like an itch that comes "sometimes like a line, sometimes an image, sometimes just a nebulous question or concern or juxtaposition". If we can learn something from Myers' work, it's the fact that poetry can help us understand life itself. In the poem "My Boyfriend’s Ex-Girlfriend Gives Me a Haircut in Bethlehem", Myers transforms a simple picture into something almost nightmarish and surreal.